Since we finally have some good weather in old Washington state we are going to start up our Friday night cruiser rides.  June 27th will be the first of many Renton cruises.  Bring out any kind of bike and check Rentons sites.  We meet at the shop at 6:30-7:00 and then we usually get out about 7:30.  From there anything can happen.  Usually it is down to the lake and back with some bar hopin involved.  Bring yourself and a bike.  We will see you then.

Also since the weather is on our side this weekend a few of us will be floating the Cedar.  I am thinking around 1pm will be a good time to meet at the shop.  We will depart from there and float for a while down the rapids of the cedar.

Some of the best bikes that I have seen in a while are the 2008 Norcos.  I am a little biased since I am riding one of the Norco Shore 1’s.  If you are heading down to Oregon or live in that area go try out some of these bikes they rip.  On the 4th of July week-end the Norco Demo truck will be holding two demo days in Oregon.

Please mark Saturday July 5 and 6 on your calendar and join Norco at Mt Hood Ski Bowl and Black Rock in Falls City.

Who can resist the fact to ride a bike instead of driving.  Atleast for some short distances or if your outfitted correctly you can commute farther than you think.  If you do choose to ride, walk, bus, or even sharing rides there is an opportunity to win prizes.  We have partnered with Metro along with some other local businesses in order to help inform you and motivate you into using the resources available.  We have packets at the store or you can check it out online here.

Not really us, but we were contacted by a super nice rider who rides a Norco and wanted some support for the year. She stopped by and we were a good fit to help her with her bike maintenance. Here is a report from her first race of the season in Spokane.

Last weekend was my first 24hr race of the season … in Spokane, Washington. I was looking forward to the weekend as Fraser had put together a 5 man team (which at the last minute turned into a 3-man team) so it was going to be a bit of a social weekend as well (well, during my 2 minute pits anyway!).

Fraser and I drove (ok, he drove, I relaxed) up to Spokane on Friday morning and got there around 3pm to snag a nice camping spot/pit for the race. We were right on the course which was perfect for me. Having the trailer sure is nice … we roll up and I can pretty much sleep right away. It is so comfortable and easy. I was loving it. What wasn’t so nice was the headwind which greeted us on the way to Spokane. The wind was brutal and at one point we were getting about 4 miles a gallon!!!!! Crazy.

So, the race started at noon and Will, our friend who is living in San Francisco, drew the short straw on Fraser’s team and got to start with me. He decided to use my pacing off the start and we were pretty much the last ones to finish the run (I am not kidding - there were maybe two guys behind us). All according to plan. We headed into the bike and it didn’t take Will long to pick up the pace and leave me in the dust…. I was once again in my own world and in the 24hr zone. (more…)

So Phil Sundbaum was back from the qashqai in Europe and brought back a new friend. Pedro came in all quiet and just seemed like another rider. His bike was banged up with only one of the two bolts holding his Gold Labels together. So we dove into his bike and ending up extracting a bolt and retainer with some precision machining. He looked on with terror as we drilled into his fork. I think it was because he was so far from Purto Rico with a giant (phil) and me doing surgery on his fork. After all this he shows me his video and I was so stoked. This kid rips.

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Get Unlimited riding in North America’s premier lift-accessed mountain bike park with the Whistler Mountain Bike Park Pass.  Lets not kid ourselves, you need one of these passes and should just move to whistler and live there all summer.  But keep stopping by g.h.y once in a while to see the new gear thats in the works.

These great deals are our way of saying thanks for shopping at g.h.y.

Get your gohuckyourself lockons. We got a bunch down at the shop. We have Black, White, and Brown grips and Black, Blue, and Red lockons. They’re looking sick.

The 2008 US Open was a great success for Griffiths Racing and the Norco World Team. With two 1st place finishes in both the DH and the Slalom events Fionn was stoked on her weekends racing.

DH practice on the Friday went well although conditions were extremely un- predictable.

“With the track as rough and rocky as it is here at Diablo Freeride park,
the conditions in practice were unforgivable, just finding yourself slightly
off line in the wet rocks will more than likely end in tears or at least with
a quick nature appreciation visit to a near buy tree.”

Fionn escaped a fairly big crash on the wet rocks without major injury, just a couple of bumps and bruises to show for her efforts.

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So the new Northwest Dirt Culture movie is out and the premier was a blast.  Greg put out his best movie to date and the DVD is on the streets.  He put together a great swag toss and kickoff party.  Heres a few pictures of what went down.

Good Crowd

Heres the man behind the lens, Greg Tubbs.  And the cover in front of the DVD.

The go huck yourself crew getting tuned up.  After the movie things got a little rowdy and Wilsons’ boxxers got removed for him.  Heres right after and the aftermath.

We are knocking down walls and expanding the shop. While there is still a bit of finish work to be done I wanted to share some pics from the past week.

Money Masai and Jesse discuss the myth of load bearing walls. What was our old storage area is now our mechanics outpost. New doorway in the back goes to our new storage area.

New storage space we expanded into. For a frame of reference you can see Masai through the door looking back towards the front of the shop.

AJ’s new office behind the storage space…

and of course the kitty killer. Bonus points for naming the oldschool bmx bike hiding behind the KK.